Arthur LEE

(1740-1792)

LEE, Arthur, (brother of
Francis Lightfoot Lee and Richard Henry Lee), a Delegate from
Virginia; born at “Stratford,” in Westmoreland County,
Va., December 20, 1740; attended Eton College, England; studied
medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and was
graduated in 1765; returned to London in 1766 and studied law at
Temple Bar 1766-1770; was admitted to the bar and practiced in
London 1770-1776; commissioned as agent of Massachusetts in England
and France in 1770; appointed correspondent of Congress in London
in 1775; commissioner to France in 1776 and to Spain in 1777;
returned to Virginia in 1780; member of the state house of
delegates 1781-1783, 1785, and 1786; Member of the Continental
Congress 1782-1784; member of the treasury board 1785-1789; died in
Urbanna, Middlesex County, Va., on December 12, 1792; interment in
Lansdowne Garden, in the rear of “Lansdowne,” his home,
at Urbanna, Va.